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Mathures Paul   |   Published 04.07.21, 01:09 AM It is only in death, 50 years ago, that Jim Morrison’s true legacy is being realised, of his literary output being far potent than his leather trousers, his confident sexiness or the Oedipal rage immortalised in the song The End. He was a poet. “So long as there are human beings, songs and poetry can continue,” said Morrison in 1969, who passed away in Paris on July 3, 1971, under mysterious circumstances th...

Print Few rock ‘n’ roll legends have had as enduring an impact on multiple generations as Jim Morrison, whose death 50 years ago next month at 27 made him an even bigger cultural icon than when he was alive. Yet, while his six-year tenure as the deep-voiced front man in The Doors created a quintessential template for brooding, bad-boy rock singers clad in leather and oozing primal sex appeal, musical stardom was most assuredly not this former San Diegan’s goal. That point is repeatedly emphasized in “The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts and Lyrics,” a ...

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